Previously in GlassFish and Payara Server, if you wanted to monitor the status of your application's MBeans, you would have to rely mostly on external programs to capture the data. In Payara Server 174, we integrated the JMX Monitoring service with our existing notification service, meaning that...

Thanks to Sun Microsystems, Java has an open source history dating back over ten years.

In 2006, the OpenJDK project was announced. It took a while to remove some lingering proprietary components but, with build 53 of OpenJDK 7, we finally had a fully open source version of the JDK. This also...

Our Payara Engineers have been working very hard on lots of new features ready for our final 5.181 release! One of the key features we intend to deliver is compatibility with MicroProfile 1.2, which will include (among other things) a Fault Tolerance API.

The (probably) final Beta release of Payara Server 5 before we release it proper, contains the bulk of the large changes we’re going to include to give you a good overview of what the final product will look like (barring any bugs!).

In Payara Server 5 (coming soon - download the Beta version here) we will be introducing some major changes to the way clustering is working by creating the Domain Data Grid. The Domain Data Grid will be easier to use, more scalable, more flexible and ideally suited for cloud environments and...

PostgreSQL is a fully SQL-Compliant relational database you can usewith Payara Server and with no commercial licensing requirements it is well suited for production environments.This blog will show you how to set up a new PostgreSQL installation on Ubuntu and connect to it from Payara Server.

About Payara

Payara Server - Derived from GlassFish, with 24/7 Production Support. Payara Server is a drop in replacement for GlassFish Server Open Source Edition, with the peace of mind of quarterly releases containing enhancements, bug fixes and patches.